Connected To The Case Uses the Power of Social Media to Connect Citizens to Cases

San Francisco, CA Oct. 1, 2012 – Praetorian Labs and Crowd Sourced Investigations, LLC, today announced the launch of Connected To The Case, a revolutionary new approach to crime fighting that leverages social media to connect citizens with information that can solve crimes to the agencies investigating those crimes.

Using the power and reach of leading edge social media tools, Connected To The Case was designed to help law enforcement solve crime, return the missing and protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse by connecting the known to the unknown. With the click of a button, Connected To The Caseutilizes profile information provided by users on Facebook and other social media platforms to show real-time results for how citizens are personally connected to active cases. These shared connections lead to greater awareness, which result in more tips being generated for law enforcement. Users who share information control their privacy every step of the way.

“The ability to harness the true power of social media, and focus it on a case that needs to be solved will help law enforcement close cases more quickly and bring closure to the families of victims who are still waiting for justice,” said Morgan Wright, CEO and Chief Crime Fighter of Crowd Sourced Investigations, LLC. “As a former law enforcement officer and detective, I know full well the need to quickly and efficiently close active cases.”

“Praetorian Group and Praetorian Labs are proud to incubate Connected To The Case, a great resource that allows the general public to participate and help public safety and first responders solve crimes every day,” said Alex Ford, CEO of Praetorian Group, the recognized digital platform leader in the Public Safety market with properties such as PoliceOne.com, FireRescue1.com and EMS1.com. “We believe this innovation will have a profound impact in helping to improve society and assist law enforcement in the coming decade.”

Connected To The Case has also been designed as a national community policing resource, allowing citizens and law enforcement to collaborate across jurisdictions and state lines to solve crime.

“The ability to use modern technology to improve communication and information sharing between police and the community on crime issues is a force multiplier that is more relevant and needed than ever before,” said Todd Miller, Director of Public Safety, Mankato, MN Department of Public Safety and Chair of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Community Policing Section. “With budgets limited by current economic conditions, this free resource to law enforcement from Connected To The Case can be an effective means of helping make our communities safer.”

In collaboration with the Officer Down Memorial Page (www.odmp.org), Connected To The Case will feature a permanent memorial and link to all the unsolved Officer Down cases for the last 20 years. "We're excited to partner with Connected To The Case to bring more awareness to unsolved police murders,” remarked Chris Cosgriff, Executive Director of The Officer Down Memorial Page. “Where other leads have run dry, we're hoping that social media may provide new tips for investigators to follow so that justice can finally be served for these fallen heroes, their families, and fellow officers."

About Connected to the CaseConnected To The Case has been designed by law enforcement professionals and former producers of TV’s “America’s Most Wanted”. While mass media can only profile a handful of the country’s biggest cases, Connected To The Casehas the capacity to cover them all – not just the select few that make it on TV, printed media or other outlets. This is accomplished using Facebook as the primary login, taking advantage of over 152 million users in the US alone, nearly 1 billion members worldwide and over 125 billion friendships.

About Praetorian Labs
Praetorian Labs is the new innovation division of the Praetorian Group. We work selectively with entrepreneurs that leverage technology to redefine online media for the benefit of public safety, security or consumer markets.

About Praetorian Group
The Praetorian Group is the leading online media and technology company in the public safety market. Our properties are visited by more than 2.1 million public safety professionals every month and count more than 850,000 first responders as members. Praetorian owns and operates www.PoliceOne.com, www.FireRescue1.com, www.EMS1.com, www.CorrectionsOne.com and www.Homeland1.com, as well as more than 15 topical public safety websites providing resources ranging from online video to grant assistance. We are deeply committed to providing resources and cutting edge information that help first responders stay safer, become better informed and more effectively protect their communities.